Calgary Flames finish the season tied for 14th overall with 96 points and fail to make the playoffs

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

Calgary's 27 regulation losses were also tied for the 7th fewest overall. Not bad for a team in Year 1 of a "rebuild."

This team absolutely deserved to make the playoffs.

Keep your filthy non-playoff team out of the Stanley Cup playoff section.

 

[Terry Yake]

shouldn't have blown that two goal lead in the last five minutes against the ducks last week

 

[Paper]

Would have made it if Dube's mental health wasn't deteriorating.

 

[Sports2]

Calgary's 27 regulation losses were also tied for the 7th fewest overall. Not bad for a team in Year 1 of a "rebuild."

This team absolutely deserved to make the playoffs.

I can’t tell if you’re joking but Calgary are loser point merchants who went 10-14 after regulation and are 4th in the league in shootout wins. Bad teams have lots of loser points because they are bad. The top 8 teams in loser points (you) missed playoffs.

 

[ijuka]

Calgary's 27 regulation losses were also tied for the 7th fewest overall. Not bad for a team in Year 1 of a "rebuild."

This team absolutely deserved to make the playoffs.

4-0 vs San Jose Sharks.

The reason East has fewer points is because there are fewer points pinyatas out there. East's record vs the West is actually in East's favor.

Also, Flames were 5-2 in shootouts.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

The current playoff format absolutely sucks.

 

[Breakers]

“Deserved”

LOLOL

 

[BertMcDrai]

They are 15th...show me the standings in which they are 14th?

But to the topic, what is this even about?
It's often that not the best 16 are in the playoffs...when you look at the loser points they shouldn't even be near a playoff spot.

 

[rojac]

STL. They were tied in points. There should be a 1 game "play in" like in MLB.

Baseball did away with that a couple of years ago. Ties for playoff positions are now determined by stars-based tiebreakers like every other major North American league.

 

[Michoulicious]

Calgary's 27 regulation losses were also tied for the 7th fewest overall. Not bad for a team in Year 1 of a "rebuild."

This team absolutely deserved to make the playoffs.

West was easier to get points with Chicago, San Jose and Nashville.

Would not put too much into that 96 vs 91 points.

 

[Sam de Mtl]

Calgary played admirably this season, for a team that was supposed to falter after having lost some important players.

Good for them. They also don't have their first pick this year, so there was no incentive to tank (although they would have retained it if they were bottom 10, but that would lead, if I remember correctly, to giving up the next one unprotected, which could have been a worse situation for them.

 

[Son of Nogatco]

The current playoff format absolutely sucks.

The only format that would put Calgary in the playoffs this year is a 1-16 and that ain’t happening

 

[Dubi Doo]

Sure, and Calgary's 96 points weren't good enough in the West, either.

In what world do the Flames deserve to make the playoffs?

Just because they're really good at losing in overtime/shootouts doesn't mean they deserve to make the playoffs.

I get what you're saying, but I've venture a guess that 96 points gets a team into the playoffs way, way more often than not. So, deserves? Maybe not. But man, it must blow to miss the playoffs when you're damn near a 100 pt team.

 

[Dubi Doo]

There's no chance Calgary would have gotten 96pts if they were playing in the East.

No chance? Montreal isn't THAT much better than them.

 

[hangman005]

The only format that would put Calgary in the playoffs this year is a 1-16 and that ain’t happening

A purely divisional playoffs. no WC would also have done it,

 

[aceofpace]

I think the OP is advocating an NBA style play-in for whenever there is a deserving team left out.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

People proposing a play in are so cringe lmao you have 82 games to accumulate points.

Genuinely worried that so many people are talking about play in , just kills the importance of regular season games and they don't even realise it lol. Mickey mouse shit

 

[jbeck5]

I would support having a short best-of-3 play-ins between the WC teams and the next 2, to avoid such oddities. Basically, this year :

St. Louis vs Calgary
Minnesota vs Vancouver
Ottawa (but it should be NJ actually) vs Detroit
Montreal vs Columbus

This would be wrapped in 5 days while the other teams rest.

No. Ottawa was 6th and 2 points from 4th in the conference...they shouldn't be playing in a play in.

 

[Son of Nogatco]

A purely divisional playoffs. no WC would also have done it,

True, although that would generally undermine OP’s goal of including the teams with the most standings points

 

[KingsFan7824]

I get what you're saying, but I've venture a guess that 96 points gets a team into the playoffs way, way more often than not. So, deserves? Maybe not. But man, it must blow to miss the playoffs when you're damn near a 100 pt team.

Must blow to know that on April 9th, you lost to the Ducks in OT.

 

[GKJ]

Don’t know how much I agree with the 30th ranked offense deserving to be there, though I was pulling for them

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

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the season, right down the f***in pishadoo

 

[HabsQC]

LIke others have said

96 pts in the west =/= 96 points in the east

I get that it must suck though.

Meanwhile we have your 1st so I'm happy

 

[Barrie22]

Calgary's 27 regulation losses were also tied for the 7th fewest overall. Not bad for a team in Year 1 of a "rebuild."

This team absolutely deserved to make the playoffs.

27 losses without the 14 times they lost in overtime/shootout. If they did not go 5-12 in overtime they then would of made the playoffs.

 

[brentashton]

I thought this was the Stanley Cup Playoffs board? This should be moved to the NHL talk board.

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